Mississauga Teen in Murder/Suicide.....

[Muzna]

So disheartening that someone as young as 17 would feel such immense pain and depression that they would take a life…or two…

Teen kills best friend, then himself

N-Nijjar, Kiranjit.jpg. Akash Wadhwa and victim Kiran Nijjar (shown) became friends at the age of six. Photo supplied
Although they weren’t a couple, Akash Wadhwa and Kiran Nijjar were soulmates.
Sadly, as family and friends of the two 17-year-olds learned last Friday, Wadhwa loved her to death.
Best friends since they were six, the two would hang out together at Heartland Town Centre, talk between classes at Mississauga Secondary School, and spend countless hours texting each other, talking on the phone and visiting each other on weekends, according to friends.
On Friday afternoon, though, Wadhwa took their inseparable bond to the extreme, fatally strangling his longtime friend and leaving her body in a ravine near their school, behind Spinnaker Circle. He then walked to the Mavis Rd. overpass down the street and jumped onto Hwy. 401, where he broke both his legs and was hit by an SUV. He died in hospital two days later.
Shortly before Wadhwa jumped from the bridge, he posted a chilling message on Facebook: “What goes around comes around. Karma is the biggest *****. You should never change on people who love and care for you. I’m leaving this sad world today.”
Among those he said goodbye to on Facebook was Nijjar, who had called him her “best friend for life.”
Peel Regional Police confirmed on Monday that the deaths are being treated as a murder-suicide. Had Wadhwa survived, he would have been charged with murder.
On Tuesday, friends of the two Brampton teens were trying to come to terms with the deaths. Some expressed love and sympathy for both, while others wept for Nijjar, but cursed Wadhwa.
“How could he do this? Why would he do this? It’s one thing to take your own life, but to take someone else’s who was so precious and beautiful,” said a classmate who only wanted to be identified as Daniel. “It’s not right. She didn’t deserve this.”
Other friends were quick to defend Wadhwa, saying he was depressed and troubled.
Many of Wadhwa’s good friends contest the rumours, accusations and angry online commenters who know him only as the boy who killed Nijjar and then committed suicide.
“Everyone just wants to think they know his life when it’s not really like him,” said his best friend of 10 years, who asked not to be named. “People are making him look like a monster.”
Those who knew Nijjar and Wadhwa said the pair were friends, but suggested the young man may have tried to take it to “another level” and Nijjar refused.
To outsiders, everything appeared normal, friends say. Many students nicknamed Wadhwa “Preppy” because he always wore gel in his hair.
Nijjar’s cousin, Romi Kler, 20, described her as “a free spirit,” always laughing, never sad.
“She could brighten everyone’s mood. She would never allow an awkward silence around her,” Kler said. “That’s how I remember her — always smiling and laughing.”
Nijjar’s immediate family was inconsolable most of the weekend, said other family members who came and went from the Mavis Rd./Steeles Ave. area home.
Kler said “everybody knew” Wadhwa was depressed and suicidal, including Nijjar.
“When she told her parents, they told her to tell the guidance counsellors at school, which she did. Her parents say she also warned police that he might kill himself. Did they look into that? Did that make a report?”
Peel District School Board spokesperson Brian Woodland said the school did “everything that could have been done” to help Wadhwa.
Meanwhile, friends of the teens have set up a Facebook memorial page to organize a candlelight vigil in their memory. It will likely be held on Friday.
On Tuesday, the mood at Mississauga Secondary School remained grim.
“You can tell they’re in shock,” said Woodland, adding a number of teachers took Monday off, upset by the loss.
Numerous memorial pages have popped up on social media sites while two makeshift memorials, one at the Mavis Rd. overpass and another on Spinnaker Circle, have been erected to honour the teens.
— with files from Torstar

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[Niksik]

Re: Mississauga Teen in Murder/Suicide.....

omg :(

Such little kids with depression....why does that happen?

[ZareenKhan]

Re: Mississauga Teen in Murder/Suicide.....

stupid kid :( im sorry but this is selfish!

[Mehnaz]

Re: Mississauga Teen in Murder/Suicide.....

My concern is about a few different things:

1. He was posting all over FB that he was depressed and suicidal. The girl he murdered (his best friend) did all the right things.
   

• told her parents he was making postings about ending his life
• told the Guidance Counsellor at school
• teachers were involved and were monitoring him

1. Despite the school's involvement and her knowledge that he was depressed and suicidal, he still managed to kill her.

2. He was making postings on FB about what he did, before and after he did it.

3. I have friends in the area, and none of the schools (junior high schools) are discussing this incident with the students. Isn't this something that should be discussed? My friend's daughter who is in Grade 8, asked her mother what is she supposed to do if someone is depressed? In that age group, their hormones are kicking in and everybody is getting depressed .....

As a parent, what do you tell your child when it comes to having contact with a peer who suffers from depression? The girl did all of the right things. She told her parents he was depressed and was going to hurt himself, she told the school .... people were aware.

[Marmalade]

Re: Mississauga Teen in Murder/Suicide.....

I've been hearing about this a lot lately. Sad.